Soot and Arrow (brother and sister) cuddling 🥰

I try to only post photos once a day, but this cuteness just happened and I had to share. If you're wondering, I added artificial halation and a lens blur to soften it up a bit, but this is 100% real kitty cuteness.

#amateurPhotography #photography #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cats #pets #cuteCats #BlackAndWhite #Soot #Arrow #amateurPhotographer #noAI #notAI #phonePhotography #Pixel6Pro #Snapseed #ShotOnPixel6Pro

Wanton acts of environmental destruction
The large-scale incinerating of oil wells

"Tehran’s toxic cloud: satellite images show oily fires burned for days. Residents reported headaches, eye and skin irritation and breathing difficulties as Israeli bombings blanketed Tehran with pollutants. Satellite images of Tehran show toxic fires caused by Israeli bombings on oil depots were still burning days after the strikes, which have caused fears of serious health complications for millions of residents in the Iranian capital." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/tehran-toxic-cloud-satellite-image-oil-fires

In this area of NSW, on the 'holiday' Mid North Coast we are all to familiar with black rain, soot and toxic air pollution caused by the NSW government's Forestry Corporation. After logging and spraying with pesticides everything is incinerated and send into the atmosphere and lungs. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116197494699675741

#FossilFuels #pollution #logging #fires #pollution #contamination #soot #toxins #climate #atmosphere #smoulderscape #fuel #petrol #oil #war #ecocide #destruction

I caught Soot spying on the neighbors again... He keeps going on about the neighbor murdering his wife or something idk I think he's spending too much time in the rear window.

#ThisIsJustAMovieReference #YesImOld #SoundOffIfYoureOldToo #CatsOfMastodon #pets #cats #Soot #cat

You can't make this up.

Before we had 2 smaller litter boxes (in this corner) side-by-side and the cats would literally double up both boxes at once with four cats literally brushed up against each other using the bathroom, because they all decided to go to the bathroom at the same time.

So we buy a single, bigger litter box with more space than the two smaller boxes combined.

The little f*ckers now form an orderly queue..

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #pets #funny #funnyCats #Soot #Ash #Arrow #cat

Smoulderscape

Still suffocating in smoke pollution
from the 'agricultural activity' of
post-harvest burning by the cellulose 'plantations'
of the NSW government's Forestry Corporation.

Déjà vu
* " “Rome Plows,” massive bulldozers with an armor-fortified cutting blade, could clear 1,000 acres a day. Enormous concussive bombs, known as “daisy cutters”, flattened forests and set off shock waves killing everything within a 3,000-foot (900-meter) radius, down to earthworms in the soil. " >>
https://theconversation.com/50-years-later-vietnams-environment-still-bears-the-scars-of-war-and-signals-a-dark-future-for-gaza-and-ukraine-254971

* Ecocide and the history of herbicidal warfare in the Vietnam War >>
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/vietnam-war-1962-1975/events/aftermath/agent-orange

#Pollution #Smoke #pollution #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #BellingenLogging #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #soot #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #PostHarvestBurning #agriculture #PileBurning #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #CleanAir #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care #StructuralViolence

Suffocating in smoke pollution
from the 'agricultural activity' of
post-harvest pile burning by the cellulose 'plantations'
of the NSW government's Forestry Corporation.

"You can kill a person with post-harvest burning just as well as with an axe”.
(Bertolt Brech, slightly altered)

"Structural violence
is a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs or rights."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence

When residents express their concerns about the prolonged toxic pollution to the relevant state institutions, the response is along the lines of 'close up your house, stay indoors or move away and shut up.'

Toxic smoke pollution maximising harm >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116146034632404631

(The original quote: "You can kill a person with an apartment just as well as with an axe”. Heinrich Zille/ B. Brecht)

#Pollution #Smoke #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #soot #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #PostHarvestBurning #agriculture #PileBurning #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #CleanAir #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care #StructuralViolence

Time to swap out our heating register filters. The left filter was put in a year ago. The one on the right is it's replacement.

#heating #ducts #soot #filters #stratfordct

Mountain #glaciers are #melting very fast- but why?

A tiny pollutant called black carbon (or #soot) darkens snow, making it melt faster.

In this blog post, the EGU Cryosphere Division explores how this microscopic substance is reshaping entire mountain landscapes.

🧵 Read more: https://egu.eu/82UQAO/